Cleaning of sump

Originally Posted by Ekia

Hey thanks, i can understand all of your explainations. Actually all of us more or less in the same wavelength.. just missed out a detail or 2. My biohome is in my sump for 2 weeks already... let hope it can sustain the bioload of my tank after the sump cleaning session... just worrried that there will be ZERO bacteria is my sump after the cleaning session and the nitogen cycle will depend solely on the LRs and sandbed while the bacterias will slowly populate the biohome again...

just make sure your biohome doesnt touch freshwater, kept in a pail with tank water and there MUST be circulation, then bacteria death is kept to the minimum...better use a powerhead to circulate and not a air stone, if use airstone, it will not be good for the denitrifying bacteria or the anaerobic bacteria...